You better second line! Jazz funeral in New Orleans for Juanita Brooks

Come pay your respects like we do down here in Nawlin's. Experience a real New Orleans second line jazz funeral for the lovely and talented Juanita Brooks.

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[nolakev17]

in New Orleans when you go home we dont just morn your passing we celebrate your life this is a tradition that goes back to the mid 1800's. this started in black neighborhoods through what we now call social aid and pleasure clubs which were formed to help with funeral expenses. the band plays slow music on the way to the cemetery and plays faster music after the burial. the band and the family of the deceased we call the first line and the people following are called the second line.

[vroman58]

I wonder where this tradition comes from? My family is from Mexico and they do this over there too. The band or "tambora" will follow the funeral procession through the streets to the cemetery. What Louisiana and New Orleans specifically share in common with Mexico is Spain. A lot of my customs and traditions are Spanish I wonder if this is one of them? This is why I love New Orleans so much cause I already understand them and know them.

[J410music]

Hope everyone is having a great fat tuesday! Much love to NOLA!!

[jazzandthangs]

Beautiful spirits, beautiful tradition...we should all celebrate life and death everyday in this way

[chrystalSexydiabetic]

Mexico ain't got nothing on a Nawlins funeral or even the second line. Anything that is Spanish is Spain Spanish and nothing to do with south of the border. You have to remember Haitians and Africans mourn this way and celebrate this way. I have seen that stuff in Mexico and wasn't impress especially with the black face paint on folks trying to look African.

[0nn3]

@nolakev17 new orleans culture has such a great perspective on life :D I wish we would mourn like this!!

[rollinhard7]

@MrLeon5000 ..you did.

[rollinhard7]

@strgazermel Yes, white people have jazz funerals(and second line) as well.

[PlanetOnePosse]

Great video! You captured this really well.

[WILLIAMCHANEL]

A beautiful tribute.

[Sogwa]

I LOVE jazz music & l find this "home going" tradition very moving & touching! A grand celebration of their life!

I realize the band is playing a slow, heartfelt version of what u just played of her singing.

It's ashamed this culture trains babies as soon as they can that death is horrible. By the time ur 5, ur scared of skeletons & ghosts (comp.s of Halloween), fear death more that other animals seem to, & in some religions, believe once u die, u vanish, disappear, & no longer exist.....